Management of wooden foreign bodies in craniofacial region
Even though variety of foreign bodies has been reported in a various locations in the craniofacial region, wooden foreign bodies are uncommon. Appropriate management of wooden foreign bodies is considered essential because of their infectious complications and difficulty in radiographic localization...
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| author | Kamaraj Loganathan James P. Chacko B.S. Saravanan Bindu Vaithilingam |
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| description | Even though variety of foreign bodies has been reported in a various locations in the craniofacial region, wooden foreign bodies are uncommon. Appropriate management of wooden foreign bodies is considered essential because of their infectious complications and difficulty in radiographic localization. Even though literature is replete with articles on management of foreign bodies in the craniofacial region, specific management of wooden foreign bodies are rarely reported. The purpose of this article is to report two cases of deeply placed wooden foreign body and a protocol for managing them in the maxillofacial region. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e9e17dc30dd3458f997af636178464c12025-08-20T02:50:26ZengElsevierJournal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research2212-42682012-09-012321021210.1016/j.jobcr.2012.10.011Management of wooden foreign bodies in craniofacial regionKamaraj Loganathan0James P. Chacko1B.S. Saravanan2Bindu Vaithilingam3Associate Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Penang International Dental College (Vinayaka Missions University), Salem, Tamil Nadu, India; Corresponding author. Tel.: +60 125616517, +60 43325050 (work), 0091 984089119 (mobile); fax: +60 43337070.Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Penang International Dental College (Vinayaka Missions University), Butterworth, Penang, MalaysiaSenior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Vinayaka Missions University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, IndiaSenior Lecturer, Penang International Dental College (Vinayaka Missions University), Salem, Tamil Nadu, IndiaEven though variety of foreign bodies has been reported in a various locations in the craniofacial region, wooden foreign bodies are uncommon. Appropriate management of wooden foreign bodies is considered essential because of their infectious complications and difficulty in radiographic localization. Even though literature is replete with articles on management of foreign bodies in the craniofacial region, specific management of wooden foreign bodies are rarely reported. The purpose of this article is to report two cases of deeply placed wooden foreign body and a protocol for managing them in the maxillofacial region.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212426812000620Wooden foreign bodyFacial TraumaComputed tomography |
| spellingShingle | Kamaraj Loganathan James P. Chacko B.S. Saravanan Bindu Vaithilingam Management of wooden foreign bodies in craniofacial region Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research Wooden foreign body Facial Trauma Computed tomography |
| title | Management of wooden foreign bodies in craniofacial region |
| title_full | Management of wooden foreign bodies in craniofacial region |
| title_fullStr | Management of wooden foreign bodies in craniofacial region |
| title_full_unstemmed | Management of wooden foreign bodies in craniofacial region |
| title_short | Management of wooden foreign bodies in craniofacial region |
| title_sort | management of wooden foreign bodies in craniofacial region |
| topic | Wooden foreign body Facial Trauma Computed tomography |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212426812000620 |
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